An Expired Fairy Tale

New book: Like Ten Years of Daylight, now available. Next book tentatively titled The Tide Drowns

On the second day after moving into Tong Tower, Yan Zhixun was told that the landlady had gone overseas on behalf of the town's Sunset Glow band to perform.

All that remained were a woman who was nocturnal and couldn't take care of herself, and a three-year-old little devil of a kid.

With no other choice, Yan Zhixun had to play the babysitter.

After getting played by the little brat again and again, he finally snapped. "Your parents named you Yanchu because they wanted you to keep your word."

Yanchu looked up at him with innocent, wide eyes. "My grandma always says my mom gets an idea and runs with it, so that's why she gave me this name."

"...Your dad doesn't stop her?"

"I've never met my dad, but Mom says his name is Goudan. Sounds like he never went to school."

A month later.

Looking at the mother and child before him, Yan Zhixun came to two conclusions:

A mom who can't take care of herself = his ex-girlfriend.

Goudan, who never went to school = him.

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Yan Xiao never thought she'd see her ex-boyfriend again in this lifetime.

She could only say that time really was a knife that killed dogs, turning them into lovesick puppies.

Yan Xiao never showed any warmth toward the guy who spent all day circling around her, hinting over and over that he should leave.

The guy, not especially impressive but ridiculously confident, opened her new book in front of her and asked the question that cut to the heart of it: "So this is what you meant by 'I'll always love Zhixun'?"

Yan Xiao turned to the very last page of the novel without changing expression.

Yan Zhixun's eyes drooped as he caught sight of the tiny words at the end:

"This story is purely fictional."

Rekindled romance + running away while pregnant

Sharp-tongued novelist x self-deluding surgeon

First draft of the blurb written on 2021.9.28

--The Tide Drowns--

The first time Lu Ling saw Wen Jin, her fear of trendy guys kicked in.

A sleeveless hoodie, ripped straight-leg jeans, a delicate ribbon chain around his narrow waist, a star-shaped collarbone chain at his throat, and a matching earring in the ear with his hearing aid.

His lowered eyelids gave him a world-weary, aloof air.

He looked less like he was here to see the apartment and more like he was headed for an outdoor fashion show.

For the sake of the money, Lu Ling still rented him the second bedroom at a high price.

At first, she kept him at bay with three locked doors. Two months later, the master bedroom door was left unlocked, and somehow a person appeared in her bed.

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In Wen Jin's eyes, Lu Ling was a strange and incredibly difficult landlady.

She was too caught up in herself, and whenever she heard something she didn't want to hear, she was even deafer than he was.

Wen Jin decided to fight magic with magic.

So whenever the two of them argued later on, he'd promptly take off his hearing aid and give her an innocent look. "What did you just say?"

Lu Ling was furious and amused at once, and told him to get lost.

Wen Jin did as he was told, picked her up, and rolled with her onto the bed. The instant he put his hearing aid back in, he clasped her waist and listened to her broken gasps.

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It feels like we're at the bottom of a pond,

walking from one moon to another.

A novelist caught up in a ghostwriting scandal x a musician who has lost his hearing

Rental-apartment romance // Both are each other's first and only love, happy ending

The final line of the blurb is taken from Wang Xiaobo's The Green-Haired Water Monster.

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